1198 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [VoL. IV, Arr. 66 
va pini 
thickest across the middle, anther 1.5 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, 
dorsifixed, transversely attached, the sides below the middle 
folded, that portion above the filaments and on the lower side 
dehiseing and usually wider from the side view; style terete, 3 
mm. long, at the minute apex slightly narrowed. 
Type specimen 13235, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
Discovered in wet earth among rocks on the wooded Iwahig 
river bank at 1000 feet altitude. Rare! 
To be compared with M. lanceolatum Cogn., but not the 
same as 232 Forworthy from Borneo. 
Memecylon terminaliflora Elm. n. sp. 
Lax, suberect undershrub; stem 3 to 4 m. high, 2.5 em. 
thiek, terete, branched from below the middle; wood latericius 
except the very thin lighter brown sapwood, odorless and taste- 
less, moderately solid; bark smooth, greenish to yellowish gray 
or brown, very thin; main branches widely spreading and eurved, 
sparingly rebranched, the twigs very slender and drooping, 
the glabrous and green portion winged. Leaves opposite, scat- 
tered, subchartaceous, horizontally spreading, glabrous, much 
lighter green beneath, flat with acute to acuminate tips recurved, 
base broadly rounded and emarginate or subcordate, entire, 
dull green and paler so beneath in the dry state, the larger ones 
2 dm. long by 6 em. wide below the middle, oblong or ovately 
oblong, gradually tapering to the apex; midvein prominently 
raised beneath, sunken along the upper side, straw brown lateral 
pairs similar, 9 to 13 on a side, divaricate, subparallel, united 
into a prominent submarginal vein; retieulations coarse and 
very obscure; petiole stout, only 3 mm. long, glabrous. In- 
florescence odorless, suberect or descending, terminal or from 
the uppermost leaf axils, usually solitary; the peduncle green, 
glabrous, slightly compressed and grooved along the edges, 
2 to 3 em. long, quite slender, umbellately branched at the 
distal end; secondary peduncles puberulent, otherwise similar, 
subtended by bract vestiges; flowers umbellately clustered, 
subtended by similar braeteoles; pedicels about 2 mm. long, 
slender and glabrous, straw colored; calyx turbinate or saucer 
shaped toward the truncate rim, stramineus; petals cyaneus, 
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